China to encourage private capital in banking industry

Source: The Malaysian Insider

BEIJING, May 27 — China will give private capital the same entry standards to the banking industry as other capital, state media said today, as the government makes its hardest push in a decade to court private investors by welcoming them into a handfu ...
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Military Proselytizing by the Gideons – and how we stopped it. - Dr. Gretchen Brendel Mann - RichardDawkins.net

Source: RichardDawkins.net

By DR. GRETCHEN BRENDEL MANN - RICHARDDAWKINS.NET Added: Sun, 27 May 2012 02:57:08 UTC - An RDFRS Original Gideons International is an evangelical Christian organization whose mission is to distribute Bibles in order to “lea ...
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A day on Montmartre hill

Source: GMANews.tv

Our bus stopped to let us off, and then we were on our way. As we climbed up the hill, the roads were replaced by narrow streets lined with small shops selling souvenir items from scarves to keychains, and it only got more a ...
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Speech (Hidden Treasures)

Source: OpPapers.com

Come all ye prospectors and listen to me A short simple story I’ll tell unto ye Concerning two (2) men who started to rove And dig for Kidd’s treasure down in Fortune Hill Cover. Being asked to speak about hidden treasures in the Bahamas is like being ...
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Man returns home to find valuables, food in fridge gone

Source: The Star Malaysia

KUCHING: A construction worker lost a number of valuable items from his house in a burglary, including food in his refrigerator. Chai Koh Chang, 57, from Jalan Sultan Tengah here told the police that upon reaching home at 4pm on ...
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Roman silver coins of Shatavahana period found

Source: Times of India

CHIKMAGALUR/MYSORE: A team of archeologists have excavated Roman silver coins at Anuvanahalli in Tarikere taluk in Chikmagalur. It is now believed that the Romans might have tried to trade in medicinal plants which were found abundantly in the region giv ...
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Much Wenlock

Source: Travel Blog

One of our main reasons to come back to Shropshire was to visit Wenlock Priory, which was closed when we visited in 2009. We took the No.426 bus from Abbey Foregate on 21 May. As we got off the bus on the Kings Street, we head ...
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Off to the islands

Source: Travel Blog

Whiteout parties are the shit. After doing the drive through of Rome, it was nice to spend a whole day actually going in depth at the sites. We started off at trevy's trench where supposedly if you throw on coin over your left ...
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Setting her imagination free

Source: The Star Malaysia

A historical novelist lets her creativity run free in her first young adult fiction book. PHILIPPA Gregory is best known for her historical novels featuring the women of the English Plantagenet and Tudor royal families in the 15th and 16t ...
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